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Four Essential Podcasts Featuring Dr. Ismahane Elouafi: Science, Systems, and the Future of Food
29.04.25In an era marked by mounting crises—climate extremes, deepening inequality, and growing food insec…
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The Road to Ending Malnutrition: How the Paris N4G Summit Sparked a Global Call to Action
17.04.25The Paris Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit brought global leaders and organizations together in a…
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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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IITA-BIP sets record for maize production per hectare in Nigeria
07.03.20-
Food security
The Business Incubation Platform (BIP) of IITA has set a new production record for maize in Nige…
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Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency
06.03.20-
Food security
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Health
The COVID-19 outbreak is showing a new trend. While the situation in China has improved…
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Four tools ILRI is using to help livestock systems transform to greater gender equality
06.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
By Zoë Campbell The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘I Am Generation…
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New EU-funded project to improve food and nutrition security in Mali, to benefit 40,000 people
06.03.20-
Food security
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Nutrition
A new project aimed at improving food and nutrition security in Mali by enhancing crop…
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A new method of agricultural growth accounting
04.03.20-
Food security
Agriculture plays a fundamental role in human history and has always been integral to world…
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Agriculture in India's budget: Paying farmers keeps them poor
02.03.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
In her recent 2020 budget speech, India Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a 16-point ag…
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ILRI Forage Genebank duplicates one-third of its collection for safe, long-term storage in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
02.03.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Alieu Sartie in the seed storage cold room at the ILRI Forage Genebank in Jan…
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Banana plants’ defense against deadly wilting disease may be in the soil
01.03.20-
Food security
Fusarium wilt, a soilborne fungal disease popularly known as Panama disease, is one of the…
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Tanzania’s traditional cooking banana yields more than expected!
28.02.20-
Food security
The yield potential of an important cooking banana in Tanzania, known as Mchare, has exceeded…
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Indian farmers reap profits from machine harvestable chickpea
28.02.20-
Food security
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Health
Machine-harvestable chickpea variety ‘Phule Vikram’, which was launched two years ago in India, …
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Spraying locusts before they can fly key for effective control
27.02.20-
Food security
East African countries are battling the worst desert locust invasion in decades. The locusts are…
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Pests and diseases and climate change: Is there a connection?
27.02.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Temperature and rainfall are the big drivers of shifts in how and where pests and…
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AfricaRice inaugurates the Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa
27.02.20-
Big data
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Biodiversity
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 27 February 2020 - The Rice Biodiversity Center for Africa (RBCA) was of…
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Giving the multiplier effect to PM-KISAN, India’s direct benefit transfer program for farmers
26.02.20-
Food security
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Gender equality
India’s Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi program, known as PM-KISAN, announced in Dec. 2018, was…
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Modelling farming systems to understand potential outcomes of agricultural interventions
25.02.20-
Food security
Three recent studies show how modelling systems can be an effective tool for decision-makers to…
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Policy seminar: Introducing the Food Systems Dashboard
25.02.20-
Food security
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Health
With as many as 32 major reports on food systems out in the past few…
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Harnessing telecommunications network data for rainfall monitoring in developing countries
24.02.20-
Big data
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Food security
The lack of accurate rainfall measurements in developing countries poses problems in monitoring crop…
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ASEAN prepares for post-2020 biodiversity framework
24.02.20-
Biodiversity
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Food security
Governments of the 650 million people of the regional bloc are gearing up to embrace…
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